The author of the phenomenally successful novel The Time Traveler\'s Wife returns with a spectacularly compelling and haunting second book set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London.
They also discover that much is still alive in Highgate, including--perhaps--their aunt..
Julia and Valentina become involved with their living neighbors: Martin, a composer of crossword puzzles who suffers from crippling OCD, and Robert, Elspeth\'s elusive lover, a scholar of the cemetery.
The girls move to Elspeth\'s flat, which borders the vast Highgate Cemetery, where Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Stella Gibbons, and other luminaries are buried.
So were the girls\' aunt Elspeth and their mother, Edie.
Julia and Valentina are twins.
There are two conditions for this inheritance: that they live in the flat for a year before they sell it and that their parents not enter it.
Their English aunt Elspeth Noblin has died of cancer and left them her London apartment.
One morning the mailman delivers a thick envelope to their house in the suburbs of Chicago.
Julia and Valentina Poole are twenty-year-old sisters with an intense attachment to each other.
From the author of the #1 bestselling The Time Traveler\'s Wife , a spectacularly compelling novel--set in and near Highgate Cemetery in London, about the love between twins, men and women, ghosts and the living.
The author of the phenomenally successful novel The Time Traveler\'s Wife returns with a spectacularly compelling and haunting second book set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London
